When Doctor Liu heard what King Huai said, she lowered her head, bowed to the door, and turned away.
Although she was a woman, the Liu family had been practicing medicine for generations and had saved countless lives. They had always been highly respected outside, and no one was as rude as King Huai.
Doctors have kind hearts and they save lives and cure illnesses, but that does not mean they can allow themselves to be bullied.
The medicine boy who entered the palace with Doctor Liu was carrying a medicine box and trotting behind her, not daring to speak.
When he came, he was surrounded by people, but when he left, no one paid any attention to him. King Huai was really going too far.
The medicine boy was worried that the doctor was angry with him, so he wanted to go up to her to comfort her, but he stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Kid, walk carefully." Someone picked him up from behind. His hands and feet flapped in the air for a few times, and then he was put on the ground.
He looked up and saw a fairy sister wearing beautiful clothes.
"Are you scared?" Jiuzhu saw the chubby child staring at her blankly, so she rummaged through her purse, took out some snacks and put them in his hand: "Here, eat something to calm your nerves."
The medicine boy blushed and pinched the snack in his hand, then turned his head to secretly look at Doctor Liu.
"Thank you, my lord." Doctor Liu saw that the newcomer seemed a little strange, and there were palace maids and eunuchs serving her. She guessed that she was of noble status and bowed to her.
"No need to thank me." Jiuzhu laughed and turned to look at Liu, the doctor: "Are you a doctor?"
The medical lady Liu, whose medical skills had just been questioned by King Huai, was slightly moved: "How did you know that, Your Excellency?"
"The girl smells like medicine." Jiuzhu is very sensitive to the smell of medicine: "She has been learning medical theory since she was a child and knows herbs. The girl is amazing."
"I don't deserve your praise." A smile appeared on Liu Yifei's face: "I am just inheriting the legacy of my ancestors."
"What's more..." Doctor Liu laughed at herself, "We are women, young, and our medical skills are average, so how can we be considered great?"
"What does a woman have to do with medicine?" Jiuzhu felt some candy in her purse and gave a handful of candy to the medicine boy: "My master is also a woman. She not only understands medical principles, but also grows her own herbs. She is amazing."
Doctor Liu smiled and said, "So, you are also good at medicine?"
"I only know a little bit. I can't cure diseases and save lives." Jiuzhu has special respect for people who are good at medicine.
"Why?" Doctor Liu was very surprised.
"Master said that if someone like me who only knows the basics treats people, it's not saving them, but harming them." Jiuzhu laughed in shame and said, "I don't have the talent to practice medicine."
The master said that everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, so even though she was not good at medicine, the second master never blamed her.
The head master was afraid that she would be sad, so he often comforted her, saying that the second master's medical skills were so poor that it would be useless whether she learned them or not.
However, she felt that the Second Master should have some medical skills, at least when she was sick as a child, it was the Second Master who cured her.
Doctor Liu was a little surprised. Among all these nobles in the palace, who would want to become a disciple and learn skills?
"The noble man's master must be a very good doctor." Doctor Liu thought, if not, why would the noble man be so polite to her, a female doctor?
"She is a nobody. She only comes out at the end of every month to visit nearby villages and give free pulse diagnosis and medicine to villagers." Jiuzhu smiled: "But in my eyes, she is indeed an amazing doctor."
Come out?
Villager?
Doctor Liu guessed the identity of this noble person.
It turned out to be Princess Chen.
At first, there were rumors that Princess Chen was fostered in a Taoist temple when she was a child and had never seen the world. In order to gain wealth and glory, she was extremely fawning in front of Prince Chen and his mother.
Later, the rumors gradually changed. Some people among the people said that the Princess Chen and the Prince Chen were a perfect match. The Prince Chen was an immortal from heaven who came down to earth, and the Princess Chen was a fairy from heaven. They were destined to be together.
However, her grandfather had mentioned to her that the Emperor and the Empress liked the Princess of Chen very much as their daughter-in-law. After the Prince of Chen got engaged to her, he became diligent and motivated, which changed the impression of many officials on him.
She was curious about what kind of powerful woman could make Prince Chen change like that. Unexpectedly, the other party looked... cleaner than she imagined.
It's so clean that it's out of place in this palace.
Maybe she is a doctor, so she particularly likes this kind of lively people.
"The princess is right. There is no distinction between high and low when it comes to curing illnesses and saving lives. A doctor who can diagnose and treat villagers for free is an extraordinary person, even if he is unknown to the world." Doctor Liu smiled gently and waved at the medicine boy: "Tong'er, Princess Chen helped you just now, go and thank her."
"Thank you, Princess." The medicine boy bowed and expressed his gratitude obediently.
"You're welcome." Jiuzhu smiled: "I'm not saving you, I'm saving a future good doctor for the people of the world."
The medicine boy looked at the fairy princess in front of him with red cheeks. Did the princess think that he would become a great doctor in the future?
"Yes!" He nodded heavily: "I will definitely study medicine with my master and not let the princess down."
"This child has a talent for medicine, but he is young and playful, and can't concentrate." Doctor Liu touched the medicine boy's head and said, "With the princess' encouragement today, he will definitely make great progress when he returns."
Prince Chen went to Mingyue Palace and told his mother the Queen Mother about Prince Huai's invitation to the Imperial Physician Liu. On the way back, he saw Jiuzhu standing under the palace wall from afar. He quickened his pace and walked behind her. When he was about to put out his hand to cover her eyes, Jiuzhu had already turned around and looked at him with a smile.
"Your Highness."
"Aren't you resting in Qilin Palace? Why are you here?" Prince Chen put his hands behind his back and asked, "Aren't you sleepy?"
"I couldn't sleep, so I came out for a walk." Jiuzhu looked at Liu the doctor: "I just happened to meet this doctor and we talked for a few words."
"This humble official greets His Royal Highness Prince Chen."
Doctor Liu had an extraordinary status among the imperial physicians, with the same rank as a sixth-rank court judge, so even though she was a woman, there was nothing wrong with her calling herself a "lower official" in front of the prince.
Jiuzhu saw determination and stubbornness on her face.
Prince Chen turned his head to look at Jiuzhu and raised his hand: "No need to be polite."
"You look familiar to me." Prince Chen took Jiuzhu's hand and put her hand into his sleeve: "Who is Doctor Liu to you?"
"He is my grandfather." Doctor Liu bowed and said, "My grandfather is old and has been in poor health recently. Hearing that Concubine Xu was seriously ill, my grandfather was very anxious. However, due to his illness, he was unable to enter the palace to diagnose Concubine Xu's pulse, so he ordered me to treat her."
"How is Concubine Xu's condition?" Prince Chen asked, based on the dull brotherly love between him and Prince Huai.
"Please forgive me, Your Highness. Because His Highness Prince Huai suspected that I was too young and a woman, he was unwilling to let me take the pulse of Concubine Xu. I did not see Concubine Xu."
"Tsk." Prince Chen couldn't help but tsk, turned his head and saw Ming Xiaozhu's disapproval on his face, and said, "There is no difference between male and female medical skills. Lady Doctor, don't take this matter to heart."
Doctor Liu bowed and said, "I dare not."
Not daring and not being able to are two different things.
"Since you have already entered the palace, please take the trouble to check my mother's pulse." Jiuzhu said, "It has been hot and cold recently. Please prescribe some warming and nourishing prescriptions for my mother."
"I obey your command." Doctor Liu bowed deeply to Jiuzhu.
If the news that King Huai questioned her today were to spread out of the palace, more people would start to doubt her medical skills. It is not easy for a woman to practice medicine, and a word from a superior is enough to destroy her years of hard work.
Princess Chen asked her to take the Queen's pulse, which undoubtedly helped her solve her current dilemma.
She bowed deeply to Jiuzhu again, then took the medicine boy and the palace maid to Mingyue Palace.
"Big brother's temper has remained the same for many years." At the critical moment, Prince Chen did not hesitate to abandon his big brother. Anyway, the affection between them was thinner than paper: "I am different from big brother. I have never agreed with his views since I was a child."
"The world is divided into yin and yang, and people are divided into men and women. Who among all the children in the world is not born from women?" Prince Chen stretched out his hand and pinched Jiuzhu's cheek: "For example, our little piglet is beautiful, kind-hearted, capable, and good at smelling scents and identifying poisons. No one in the world can compare to you."
"And my mother is beautiful, gentle and kind." Jiuzhu stood obediently and let Prince Chen pinch her cheek: "Your Highness, it's a little itchy."
"Silly." Prince Chen was reluctant to use too much force, so he held her face and gave her a kiss on the forehead: "Come on, go back and read with me."
"Your Highness, I don't like reading."
"I have the latest storybook here, would you like to read it?"
"Is it the Overbearing Prince?"
“…”
"Your Highness, Your Highness." Jiuzhu shook his arm: "I want to read the story of the domineering prince."
Prince Chen looked down at her and said, "What's so interesting about the story of a domineering prince? You'd better watch me."
Jiuzhu turned her head and said, "Then I won't accompany you to the study to read. I will go to accompany my mother to pick out jewelry."
"Come back." Prince Chen held her waist and said, "I'll ask Yang Yiduo to buy you some. I'll buy you some Overbearing Prince, some Overbearing Young Master, some Overbearing Martial Arts Leader."
"I don't want the young master and the leader of the martial arts world, I only want the prince."
Prince Chen: “…”
"OK!"
Other men worry about their wives having a bad relationship with their mothers, but he worries that the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is too good and they leave him aside.
Forget it, as a man, you have to be able to bend and stretch.
In order to please your wife, it doesn't matter if you buy a book about a domineering prince. When necessary, you can even act like a domineering prince in front of her.
"Your Highness is the best." Jiuzhu rubbed her head in Prince Chen's arms, and her already soft tone was filled with a bit of coquettishness.
"Hmph." Prince Chen turned his head away. Women's mouths are always deceiving.
However, his hands were carefully holding her shoulders to prevent her from accidentally falling.
"Your Highness, I remember you said that Prince Huai was very filial to his mother?" Jiuzhu suddenly remembered something and raised her head from Prince Chen's arms: "How could a filial son refuse a doctor when his mother was seriously ill?"
When people are extremely worried and anxious, they are reluctant to miss any possibility.
Concubine Xu was seriously ill, but King Huai still had the leisure to nitpick about the doctor's gender. This is not something a filial son would do.
Even if Doctor Liu couldn't cure Concubine Xu's illness, he could ask other doctors to come. Why didn't he let Doctor Liu even look at Concubine Xu?
"Yes, how could a filial son be so picky about the doctor at a time like this?" Prince Chen gently patted Jiuzhu's back and sighed, "Brother, you are truly filial."
"Your Highness." A blue-robed eunuch walked up to Prince Chen and whispered, "Your Highness Prince Huai is still accompanying Concubine Xu in Zhaoxiang Palace."
"Did he ask other imperial doctors to check Concubine Xu's pulse?"
"Before I left, Zhaoxiang Palace had not yet invited other imperial doctors."
"Look, little pig." Prince Chen sighed, "Human hearts are so boring."
As soon as he finished speaking, Prince An's spirited call came from behind him.
"Fifth brother." Prince An saw Prince Chen and trotted over to him: "What a coincidence, we meet again."
Jiuzhu seemed to want to say something but stopped.
Just now she saw Prince An's figure wandering back and forth several times behind the door next to the palace wall.
It doesn't seem to be a coincidence.
"I just got some venison. Let's have a barbecue and drink together tonight, brothers?" Prince An smiled innocently, "I remember that when you were a child, you loved barbecue the most. I wonder if your taste has changed now."
In order to get close to his younger brother, Prince An made every effort.
"Okay." Prince Chen lowered his eyelids: "Call my eldest brother, and let's have a good gathering together as brothers."
King Huai, who was missed by his brothers, was in infinite confusion at this moment. He looked at his mother who was sitting on the bed and remained silent for a long time without saying a word.
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