Chapter 42 I don’t know how such a coincidence could happen in the world?
After a long silence, Zhou Xian lowered her eyelashes slightly, gave an ambiguous laugh, and said, "It wouldn't hurt to meet him."
After saying that, she asked Qianshan and the others to help her dress up.
He had only just begun to feel better, having been tormented for half the night by some sneaky person. His face was pale, and his waist and legs ached. He wore no heavy makeup, his face pale, his lips a startlingly pale. He had his hair tied up in a simple bun, and he was layered in layers of clothing. It was obvious he was recovering from a serious illness.
Halfway out the door, Zhou Shan's legs gave way, and he stopped, leaning against the maid to catch his breath. The constant rubbing of his legs against the fabric of his underwear was excruciating, rubbing against him. Even his waist felt sore and weak that he didn't feel like his own body anymore.
When he reached the main hall for guests, he saw Wang Xiang sitting with her legs crossed, drinking tea. Seeing Zhou Xian, Wang Xiang exclaimed in surprise, "Why does the princess look so pale?"
Zhou Xian smiled faintly and said, "Thank you for your concern, Eunuch Wang. It's just that I caught a cold a few days ago and I'm feeling a little unwell today. It's nothing serious."
Wang Xiang sighed, "We've been with the princess all her life, and we know perfectly well that she can't stand the slightest bit of cold. Over a month ago, we frightened her in Wuchang Prefecture, and she's been sick all the way back. We deserve death, and I beg the princess to punish us."
After saying this, the eunuch stood up from the armchair, rolled up his sleeves, and was about to kneel down to Zhou Shan.
Zhou Xian didn't stop him. Instead, she slowly sat down in the main seat in the room and waved her hand, saying, "I can't bear Eunuch Wang's kneeling. He's my father's right-hand man and a well-known figure in the court. How dare I punish him?"
Just at this moment, Qianshan brought tea. Zhou Xian took the tea bowl from her hand, skimmed off the foam, and took a sip, but her eyes were always fixed on Wang Xiang.
Wang Xiang pretended to kneel down, but when he saw Zhou Shan didn't seem to care, he straightened up leisurely and sat back in his armchair. He said with a smile, "I have done something wrong, so I naturally have to apologize to the princess. I'm sure the princess wouldn't be interested in ordinary gold and silver treasures, so I searched all over the place for a miraculous doctor. A few months ago, I happened to find a folk doctor. I wonder if the princess would do me a favor and let this folk doctor take a closer look at me?"
Zhou Xian put down the tea bowl and said, "I appreciate your kindness, eunuch. However, my condition is very special, and I'm afraid it's not convenient for me to be treated by a strange doctor."
Wang Xiang sneered, "Don't worry, Princess. This man will definitely not reveal a single word to anyone. If he reveals your illness, we will kill him. Besides, you have a connection with him."
"Fate?" Zhou Xian raised an eyebrow. "How strange! I don't remember ever having any connection with any miracle doctor. But since my father-in-law promised me that he wouldn't tell anyone else, then bring him up here."
The miraculous medicine he took not only made him look like a girl, but also made his pulse more feminine. Ordinary doctors could not tell whether he was a man or a woman, and experienced doctors did not dare to jump to conclusions. If the genius doctor brought by Wang Xiang could really tell that he was not a woman, he would be considered capable.
"Bring the man up." Wang Xiang ordered his men.
After a while, a young man came in from outside the door. He was not very old, about sixteen years old, and looked nervous. He almost fell when he stepped over the threshold. The eunuch from the East Factory next to him was quick-witted and quick-handed, so fortunately no one prevented him from falling.
Zhou Xian had seen this young man before, in the small clinic in Xuanbeifang. The young man was eloquent and quite likable.
"I've seen him, I've seen him..." the young man stammered and knelt on the ground with a thud.
Zhou Xian asked, "What's your name?"
The young man said, "My name is Sun Jing."
"Okay, Sun Jing, we've met before. Do you remember?" Zhou Xian saw Sun Jing's confused expression and added, "In July, in the capital, in Xuanbeifang, you prescribed me some medicine to treat my acclimatization problem. Do you remember?"
After Zhou Xian reminded him, Sun Jing suddenly realized: "Ah! It turned out to be you. You were..."
Sun Jing was halfway through his speech when he suddenly realized something and quickly shut up. He almost blurted out the story about the fake death potion, but luckily he stopped himself in time. The princess at the top of the table smiled faintly, but her eyes were frighteningly cold. Sun Jing had been good at reading people's expressions since he was a child, and he knew what he could and couldn't say.
Zhou Xian was quite satisfied with Sun Jing's reaction. He asked, "The miracle doctor that Eunuch Wang mentioned, isn't that you? Where's the old doctor in your family?"
Sun Jing's palms were sweating: "He's outside the door..."
At this time, there was a noise outside the door. The people from the East Factory hurriedly stopped an old man. The old man shouted and made a noise, and his strength was so great that he actually pushed away the eunuchs from the East Factory who were blocking his way and fell heavily into the door.
"What's going on?" Zhou Xian stood up and asked with a frown, "Why are you arguing out of the blue?"
The old man crawled a few steps on the ground, then suddenly straightened his upper body and stared at Zhou Shan with a pair of cloudy eyes. His face was ferocious and he was sobbing, but it was unclear what he was saying.
"Doctor Sun, what are you doing?" Wang Xiang personally stepped forward and helped the man up from the ground. His handsome face was full of worry, and he even patted the old man's robe.
The old man slowly turned his eyes and fell on Wang Xiang's face. He stared at him motionlessly for a long time. When he turned to Zhou Shan again, his eyes seemed to flash a few times and became bright.
The old man said hoarsely, "Is it you who wants to see a doctor?"
Zhou Xian's heart was beating fast for some reason: "Yes."
The eunuch from the East Factory beside him scolded the old man: "Don't be rude, you haven't even met the princess yet..."
"No need for all that formality," Zhou Xian interrupted the eunuch, saying calmly, "Doctor Sun, come here."
Sun Yi seemed to sigh deeply, lowered his head and said to Sun Jing, "Go and get the medicine box." Sun Jing hurried out the door, took a black lacquered wooden box from the eunuch, and held it in front of Sun Yi.
The old man, alternately mad and lucid, looked haggard, making everyone wonder if he could even make it. He shakily walked over to Zhou Shan, his eyelids drooping and his face expressionless, carrying his medicine box. Yu Xi stepped forward, slightly separating Sun Yi and Zhou Shan, her expression wary.
Sun Yi took out a pulse pillow from the medicine box and whispered, "Princess, please put your hand on it."
Zhou Xian glanced at the old man, then lowered his head, put his hand on him without saying a word.
Through a layer of silk cloth, Zhou Xian could feel the old man's fingertips trembling. He saw that old hand was covered with scars, like an old tree that was about to die.
Seeing Sun Yi's expression change several times, Qianshan beside him could no longer hold back and asked anxiously, "Old... Doctor Sun, please tell me, will our princess be well again?"
"Qianshan." Zhou Xian coughed lightly as a warning, and Qianshan had to shut up.
"Princess..." Sun Yi said with a worried look on his face, "She must have taken some medicine that damaged her health. May I ask what medicine did she take that was so potent that it damaged all her internal organs?"
"Send out the irrelevant people." Zhou Xian did not answer first, but asked Yu Xi and the others to drive them away.
Only a few people who knew about the situation were left in the room, including Yuxi, Qianshan, Muxue, and Wang Xiang. The young man named Sun Jing was also taken out.
Seeing that everyone had left, Zhou Xian stared coldly at Sun Yi with his dark eyes and asked in a low voice, "What do you think this medicine is, Doctor Sun?"
Sun Yi actually laughed: "Of course it is a medicine of great yin and great cold."
Zhou Xian was about to test him again, but Wang Xiang spoke softly, "I've heard that Doctor Sun is known as the 'Little King of Medicine' in the Jiangnan area. He has miraculous remedies for difficult and complicated illnesses, and even cures that can change gender and bring the dead back to life!"
Sun Yi ignored Wang Xiang and grabbed Zhou Xian's wrist, demanding, "Who gave you this medicine?"
"what are you up to?!"
"Let go!"
Qianshan and Muxue were filled with shock and anger at this. They rushed forward, one on each side, to restrain the old man, but Sun Yi was so strong that they were almost thrown to the ground by his arm. Yuxi was also anxious and wanted to pull Zhou Shan's arm back, but Zhou Shan said calmly, "Don't panic."
Zhou Xian calmly asked, "Doctor Sun, do you know what this medicine is? I thought it was a prescription from the Imperial Hospital, and it was said to be private. How did you know that?"
Upon hearing this, Sun Yi loosened his hands and trembled all over. He opened and closed his mouth, but could not utter a word.
"Oh, right, I just thought of something quite coincidental." Wang Xiang smiled, looking at the frantic Sun Yi, then at the stern Zhou Xian, and chuckled, "I heard that Doctor Sun has a son and a daughter. The son is named Yuanzhi and the daughter is named Ningxiang. Oh, isn't this a coincidence? Our Concubine Jing's maiden name is also Ningxiang..."
"How can there be such a coincidence in the world?"
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"Namo Amitabha, this humble monk and the censor are truly destined to meet in such a desolate wilderness."
The blade's gleaming light shone brightly in the sunlight, and even the Jade Monk's head was no less dazzling, nearly blinding anyone. Surrounded by sword-wielding Jinyiwei, Jade Monk remained calm, pulling out a token from his bosom and handing it to Zhang Jinwei. "I, under the orders of Prince Rui, have brought a renowned physician to see the princess. This is Prince Rui's badge. Please, Your Excellency the Censor, allow me to proceed."
Zhang Jinwei, with a forced smile, took the token from Bald Donkey's hand, examined it carefully, and confirmed that it belonged to Zhou Heng. He said, "Since he is King Rui's man, it's not easy for me to stop him."
As he spoke, he looked at the woman behind Monk Yu.
The woman was not young, about forty or fifty years old, with gray hair on her temples. She looked calm and composed. Noticing Zhang Jinwei's gaze, she introduced herself: "Huang Ruiying from Jiangxi."
Hearing the woman's name, Zhang Jin was extremely surprised: "Is it really the Yellow Saint Hand?"
Huang Ruiying nodded: "It's genuine."
This arrogant demeanor, the huge medicine box on her back, and Zhou Heng's token... Zhang Jinwei did not doubt the woman's identity, but he was still worried, mainly because he was worried about the bald donkey.
"Li Er." Zhang Jinwei called.
A Jinyiwei stepped out: "Here."
"You follow me to send Huang Shengshou to Yan'an Prefecture, and the rest of you continue to rush back. Don't worry, I will send him there and catch up after confirming that everything is correct." Zhang Jinwei ordered.
Monk Yu couldn't help but say, "Your Excellency the Censor, there's no need..."
"No need for what?" Zhang Jinwei sat on horseback, looking down at Monk Yu. "The Master and I just happened to have something to discuss. Although King Rui is your guarantor, some of the Master's past actions really make me unable to trust him."
Monk Yu felt an inexplicable chill on his back.
Zhang Jinwei laughed: "Master, why are you so stunned? We can ride as fast as we can and reach Yan'an in less than an hour. Let's go!"
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