The Queen and her entourage enjoyed the meal very much.
Even Xia Miaoyuan, whose teeth had not yet grown in, ate happily.
Although she could only eat a limited amount of food on the table, it did not affect her good mood at all.
She drank the fragrant rice porridge, ate the minced meat and eggs that Yin Xizi specially stewed for her, and also ate some vegetable soup.
[Oh my, I'm so full! This is what it feels like to be truly full. Drinking milk all day is really not good.]
Xia Miaoyuan touched her round belly and burped contentedly.
Only Yin Xizi felt complicated while eating, and the food tasted like chewing wax.
She was not a fool. The Queen brought the prince and princess to visit her, so it was certainly not because they were bored and wanted to go hiking. It must be related to the last time someone invited her to come out of the mountains.
By the time we finished the meal, the sun had already set.
"It's getting late, Doctor Yin, could you let us stay overnight?" The Queen asked sincerely.
Yin Xizi looked embarrassed. "The Queen asked me to do this, and I shouldn't have refused. But I really..." Yin Xizi paused, "This is really too unfair to the Queen."
"Besides, my place is small and can't accommodate so many people."
The Queen raised her lips slightly and said, "It's alright, I don't mind."
That night, the Queen kept Xia Miaoyuan, Sang Qi and Yingxue by her side, and asked the others to stay at a hunter's house in the mountains.
In late autumn, on Lingyun Peak, the night wind was cold and only a crescent moon hung in the night sky.
In Yin Xizi's room, the Queen and she sat opposite each other. Xia Miaoyuan sat on the bed, playing with a rag doll.
The Queen asked Yingxue to bring out a pot of wine, filled it herself and handed it to Yin Xizi: "Doctor Yin, tonight, just treat me as a passerby, and let's drink and chat."
Yin Xizi guessed that the Queen would most likely ask her to leave her retirement, and her expression turned grim. She slowly took the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
"I am not a man of words, I prefer to speak directly. If your Majesty has come this time to invite me to come out of seclusion, then I can give you my answer right now. I am unwilling to do so."
Yin Xizi's eyes were firm.
"This female healer is truly straightforward. It wasn't easy for my mother to invite her out of retirement," Xia Miaoyuan complained.
The Queen pondered for a moment and said, "You have been living in seclusion in the mountains for more than ten years and have never been willing to come out. I have heard about this."
"Last time, when His Majesty's secret guards came to invite you, you ruthlessly refused. This made me understand even more deeply the depth of your obsession with not wanting to leave the mountain."
The Queen paused and said, "But I still feel unwilling to accept this."
"This time, I brought my two children to visit you, not to use my status to pressure you or force you to come out of seclusion."
"I just think that if you don't want to leave the mountain, there must be a reason for not wanting to leave. I just want to ask you in person, what is that reason?"
[Humph! The reason is that her grandfather, her parents, were all killed by Prince Jing.] Xia Miaoyuan recalled this passage in the book and bit her lips with her four front teeth in hatred.
Ah! It turns out that Yin Xizi's enemy is Prince Jing!
When the queen heard her daughter's inner thoughts, she was surprised, happy, and also felt a sense of hatred.
Yin Xizi poured himself a glass of wine, took a sip and said, "If you don't want to leave the mountain, then you don't want to leave the mountain. As for the reason, what does it matter?"
The Queen's eyes shifted, and she changed her train of thought, asking directly, "People say you're living in seclusion in the mountains to avoid your enemies?"
Yin Xizi closed her eyes in pain: "Yes."
Seeing Yin Xizi's frank admission, the Queen became even more confident and asked, "Then who is this enemy?"
Yin Xizi kept silent.
"Doctor Yin, it is the Emperor and Empress of Daxia who invite you out this time. With us as your backing, what do you have to worry about even if you have enemies?" The Queen picked up the wine pot and filled it for the two of them again.
However, Yin Xizi, contrary to her usual behavior, burst into laughter, which even scared Xia Miaoyuan.
"Hahahahaha! The Emperor and Empress are my backers..."
Yin Xizi looked at the queen with a sharp gaze, her eyes full of sarcasm: "But, what if this enemy's surname is Xia, the Xia in the palace?!"
Yin Xizi's face darkened, distorted by excessive emotion. "What if he is a high-ranking royal relative, a relative of Emperor Mingxi? What would you do?!"
[Ah, although what the miracle doctor said was harsh, it was the truth.] Xia Miaoyuan seemed to empathize with her, with a frown on her face.
Prince Jing is Daddy's second brother, his biological half-brother, only one year older than him. They grew up together and have a deep bond.
If this gets out, Daddy will be in such a difficult situation.
The Queen sat down next to Yin Xizi, took her hand and said, "Doctor Yin, I'm just going to tell you the truth."
"This invitation to you is a unanimous decision between His Majesty and me."
"Before we came here, we also inquired about some of your affairs. Although His Majesty does not know who your enemy is, he knows that this person is a royal relative."
"Since he asked me to invite you, he has already made up his mind. No matter how special this royal relative's status is, he will see to it that justice is served to you."
Yin Xizi's eyes lit up, as if she was moved.
"Your Majesty, can he really do justice for me?" Yin Xizi's eyes turned red.
The Queen looked directly into Yin Xizi's eyes and said, "I swear on my mother's family that Your Majesty and I will definitely bring justice to your family's vengeance."
Two lines of tears slid down Yin Xizi's cheeks.
She wiped away her tears, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, as if she had made a major decision, and said word by word: "It is King Jing!"
The queen looked at Yin Xizi eagerly, as if waiting for her to continue.
"That was 18 years ago. Our Yin family lived in Dashi County, Qingzhou. That's our hometown."
"Our Yin family is a family of medicine and is quite famous in the local area. Especially my grandfather Yin Heng, who is known as Hua Tuo."
"At that time, Prince Jing's family was also in Dashi County, Qingzhou."
The Queen nodded and murmured, "Yes, Prince Jing's fiefdom is Qingzhou."
"That year, Prince Jing's eldest son fell ill. Prince Jing loved his son so much that he specially invited my grandfather to treat him."
Xia Miaoyuan listened attentively to Yin Xizi's story while recalling the plot of the book.
[I remember that Prince Jing's eldest son was born to his wife, Princess Bai. And Princess Bai was Prince Jing's true love; the two grew up together as childhood sweethearts. Prince Jing loved her deeply, and the son she gave birth to was even more precious to him.]
Yin Xizi took a sip of wine and continued, "The child's illness wasn't initially a difficult or complicated one, but a common pediatric illness. My grandfather treated the child very carefully."
"But who would have thought that after three days of taking the medicine prescribed by my grandfather, the child's symptoms not only did not get better, but got worse."
"My grandfather diagnosed that the child's meridians were abnormal, and the worsening of the symptoms was due to the meridians."
"But the King said that Grandpa was quibbling."
[A one-year-old child had over a dozen silver needles inserted into his body. It would be strange if his meridians were normal.]
What? That child was pierced with silver needles?!
The queen shuddered.
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