Chapter 324: Shave it off
The servants checked Jiang Yuxi's house everywhere before coming out to report to her.
"Miss, I checked it for you. It's just that one snake. Don't worry."
Jiang Yuxi looked at him coldly, "You servants come and go all day long, but you didn't even notice a snake crawling into the mansion. Where are your eyes?"
"Miss, please calm down. This snake is not big, and its color is not very conspicuous. It is possible that it crawled into our house at night, so..."
"So you are not wrong?" Jiang Yuxi scolded, "You lazy slaves, who only know how to eat and not do anything, actually let a snake crawl into the master's room. I will tell mother and ask her to punish you severely!"
The servants immediately knelt on the ground in fear.
The Duke's wife rushed over upon hearing the news and just happened to see Jiang Yuxi scolding the servants.
"Okay, Xi'er, I've heard about it. It was just an ordinary, non-venomous little snake. It's not worth getting so angry about it."
Miao patted Jiang Yuxi on the shoulder, and then instructed the servants: "Look around this mansion, especially the trees and flower gardens, check them carefully. This kind of thing must not happen again."
When she first heard that a snake had entered Jiang Yuxi's room, she was somewhat alert. But when she learned that it was just an ordinary non-venomous snake, she felt that she was worrying too much.
If someone really wanted to harm Yuxi, what's the point of releasing an ordinary snake? Even if she gets bitten, nothing will happen.
But just to be on the safe side, it would be better to check everywhere in the house.
"Xi'er, come and eat something. Why are you torturing yourself like this?"
Miao looked at her daughter's pale face and felt very distressed. She helped her into the house, and after the personal maids put down the food, she asked them to go out of the door.
"I know that you don't want to lose to Jiang Rumin, but don't rush to confront your father. Let me ask you, if Jiang Rumin can't be the female tutor of Sixian Hall, will you feel relieved?"
Jiang Yuxi was stunned, "Mother means..."
"There are unexpected events in life, and people are subject to misfortunes at any time. If she has an accident, the position of the female tutor will be vacated and someone else can take it. In addition to her and Miss Liu, there are two other noble ladies who performed well at the selection meeting. They are qualified to be substitutes. By then, our Jiang family will be on good terms with them. When there are more students in the future, we will have to add assistant positions. If they are willing to recommend you, you will definitely be able to go."
"Really?" Jiang Yuxi was delighted, but then she became worried. "Ruihe Hall has the Zhao family's guards. Do we have a chance to take action?"
"Unless she doesn't go out, we will definitely have a chance. Anyway, it's useless for you to go on a hunger strike like this. You will suffer. Look at you these past two days. You have been listless and you don't even clean yourself up. It's ugly to look at you. After eating, wash yourself up and cheer yourself up."
After much persuasion from Miao, Jiang Yuxi finally listened. Her depressed mood after two days was relieved a little, so she picked up the food on the table and started eating.
But that night, Jiang Yuxi still slept uneasily.
She had a strange dream. In the dream, an invisible hand was pulling her scalp, making it painful and numb, and her head was buzzing.
In the morning, she was suddenly short of breath and felt weak. When she woke up, she was covered in cold sweat.
She slowly sat up from the couch and instinctively raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead, but suddenly realized——
The forehead is very smooth.
Where there should have been a lot of hair, she only felt her scalp.
My forehead is still numb. Is she still asleep?
She subconsciously lay back down, but when she turned her head, she found a large patch of messy hair beside the pillow, which was very conspicuous on the lotus pink quilt.
Outside the house, servants of the Duke's Mansion were walking around, some were pruning the flower beds, and some were sweeping up fallen leaves.
Suddenly, everyone heard a loud scream resounding through the sky.
"ah--"
The sound was so sharp and creepy that if you didn't know what was going on you would think you had seen a ghost.
Everyone couldn't help but look towards Jiang Yuxi's house.
It can’t be that a snake has entered the Second Miss’s room again, right?
…
At noon that day, the servants of the Duke's Mansion posted reward notices on the nearby streets, looking for a famous doctor who could treat alopecia.
Someone asked what the patient's specific illness was.
"It was probably fine yesterday, but after a good night's sleep, I don't know why, a lot of my hair fell out..."
"When you say 'a lot', how much do you mean?"
"Probably... more than half of the hair has fallen out, and less than 30% of the hair is left."
"Did it fall off suddenly after waking up from a nap?"
"yes."
“…”
The doctors felt that they had never heard of this before.
Some people initially wanted to try it for the high bounty, but turned away after hearing the description of the symptoms.
It's better not to go to a place like the Duke's Mansion if you are not sure, so as to avoid making a wasted trip and offending people.
I have seen people lose their hair slowly, but I have never seen such severe hair loss after just one night's sleep...
…
"Madam, the young lady's symptoms are so strange that the doctors all said they had never heard of them before. But fortunately, there are five doctors who claim to have seen many difficult and complicated diseases. We want to give it a try."
"Then let them come over and help the young lady!" Miao's tone was full of anxiety.
Behind her, Jiang Yuxi was wearing a fox fur hat and looked extremely ugly.
Seeing the doctors coming in, Miao turned to look at Jiang Yuxi.
The doctor in the mansion said that the disease could not be cured, and she had no choice but to look for a doctor outside the mansion.
Jiang Yuxi raised her hand and took off her fox fur hat. The moment she exposed her head to the air, all the doctors were dumbfounded.
I saw that the hair on her head was sparse and scattered, and her smooth scalp was clearly visible from her forehead to the center. Her scalp was red, like scratches, obviously caused by herself.
The little hair she had left was so hard to comb that it would look better if she shaved it all off.
With a few tufts of hair hanging on the top of his head, he looked funny and untidy.
Jiang Yuxi was of course unwilling to shave his head.
The doctors carefully examined her scalp, and after discussing it for a while, they decided to relieve the inflammation on her scalp first.
After a long time.
"Miss, the inflammation on the top of your head is a bit serious. Our medicine can only alleviate it, but it can't cure it. If you don't treat it, I'm afraid you won't be able to grow hair in the future."
"Such symptoms are unheard of, ma'am. We have done our best."
"Madam, why don't you take Miss to Ruihetang? Miss Jiang's medical skills are excellent, she may be able to help."
When Jiang Yuxi heard the words "Ruihetang", her face immediately turned pale.
Asking her to ask Jiang Rumin for help? What a joke!
Miao's expression was also quite ugly.
Perhaps seeing the dilemma faced by the mother and daughter, a doctor coughed and said, "Madam, Miss Jiang is kind and gentle, and is well-known for her kindness. No matter what grudges you two had with her in the past, you can bring Miss Jiang to her door and beg her in front of the neighbors. Miss Jiang will probably help you."
Miao thought for a moment, then turned to Jiang Yuxi and said, "Xi'er, put on your hat, let's go outside the clinic and beg her. I'll go and speak to her in person. It was your father who had a falling out with her that caused us to not dare to associate with her. Now that we're in trouble, please beg her nicely. She shouldn't sit idly by."
Otherwise, how can you be considered a good person in the eyes of your neighbors?
Everyone says Jiang Rumin is a good person. If she remains indifferent to their pleas, wouldn’t she be a cold-blooded person?
Face is important, but Yuxi's future is more important. It's okay to endure the anger for a while.
…
"Miss, the wife of the Duke of Jin and the second young lady are outside the clinic asking to see you. Would you like to see them?"
In the backyard of Ruihe Hall, Jiang Rumin was sorting the herbs in the warehouse. Upon hearing the news, she responded casually, "Of course I have to meet acquaintances who come to visit. Let's serve them tea first."
After saying that, she left the warehouse and came to an empty guest room in the backyard.
Opposite this guest room is the room where Si Lianhuan rests.
Jiang Rumin opened the small incense burner on the coffee table and threw a piece of spice into it.
Soon, wisps of smoke overflowed from the top of the incense burner.
In the front yard, Yingchun had already served tea to Jiang Yuxi and her daughter.
"Yingchun, what is Rumin busy with in the backyard? We have something important to discuss with her, so go and talk to her first." Miao was annoyed in her heart, but she still maintained a gentle expression on her face.
"My lady was just talking to the princess of Xiling Kingdom. Madam, please wait a moment."
Upon hearing this, Miao could only respond, "Of course the princess's matter is more important."
Before coming, she had already anticipated that Jiang Rumin might leave her alone, and she also guessed that Jiang Rumin might say that she couldn't cure the disease.
If it were the Jiang Rumin of the past, she might not even meet them, but Jiang Rumin’s current identity is not only a famous doctor, she also holds a sixth-rank official title, so reputation is the most important thing to her.
If she could cure Yuxi and was willing to do so, she would undoubtedly have a good reputation, and everyone would say that she did not care about the conflict with her biological father, loved her sister, and had a noble character. But if she could not cure her, or was unwilling to do so...
Miao sneered in her heart - after today, she would let the streets spread the reputation of Jiang Rumin as a cold-hearted and mean person, letting everyone know that Jiang Rumin was angry with her biological father, and even resented the other people in the Jiang family, and had no mercy on her own sister.
Yuxi is having a hard time, and Jiang Rumin can forget about having a good reputation.
After a while, Yingchun came out from the backyard again. "Miss, I'm free now. Please follow me."
Miao and Jiang Yuxi followed her to the guest room in the backyard.
When I entered the room, I saw Jiang Rumin sitting at the table with the medicine box on her left.
Miao pulled Jiang Yuxi forward and said, "Rumin, we came here today to ask for a favor. You once said that doctors have a kind heart. If we get sick, you would be willing to treat us, right?"
Jiang Rumin looked calm, "What illness do you have? Tell me."
"It's Yuxi. Her illness is strange. Many doctors have been consulted but none of them can cure her. If you can cure her, just tell us what you want!"
As Miao said this, she was about to take the hat off Jiang Yuxi's head.
But Jiang Yuxi took a step back and held on to her hat tightly.
"Xi'er, take off your hat. Rumin is a doctor and will definitely not laugh at a patient like you."
Jiang Yuxi bit her lip and walked in front of Jiang Rumin. "Sister, I am to blame for what happened in the past. I have let you down! I shouldn't have targeted you for the prince. I really didn't expect him to be a traitor! Now that he has fallen, I have been laughed at a lot. I have learned my lesson. I promise that I will never make you angry again in the future!"
Jiang Rumin was a little surprised.
"Don't you believe it? I can swear! In fact, if there was no prince, we wouldn't be fighting against each other. The conflict between you and me should be blamed on him! If he hadn't been indecisive, how could we hate each other? Now that he is gone, we don't have to fight anymore."
Jiang Yuxi started to cry as she spoke, holding her head and squatting down, "Sister, can you help me? Just have pity on me."
Jiang Rumin lowered his eyes and looked at her, sighing, "Get up, I won't laugh at you, take off your hat and show it to me first."
Hearing this, Jiang Yuxi looked up at her, and her eyes seemed to light up suddenly.
Jiang Rumin reached out and took off her hat.
The moment she saw Jiang Yuxi's head clearly, the corners of her lips twitched almost imperceptibly.
"Your scalp is a bit inflamed, sit down first."
Jiang Rumin opened the medicine box, took out a bottle of medicine, and applied the ointment on Jiang Yuxi's scalp.
Miao had been watching vigilantly.
She thought that Jiang Rumin would not dare to let Yuxi's injury worsen and ruin Ruihetang's reputation.
Perhaps she really intended to cure Yuxi to gain a better reputation and have everyone praise her.
Time passed slowly, and Jiang Yuxi actually felt that the pain on her head was not so uncomfortable anymore.
But before she could be happy, she heard Jiang Rumin's cool voice behind her.
"Yuxi, I think I can't cure your strange disease."
Jiang Rumin said this is the truth.
Currently, only Nan Yan can cure the poison in Medicine King Valley. When she asked Nan Yan for the poison, she did not bring the antidote with her.
"Didn't you just say that you were sorry for me? Perhaps this is one of your retributions. I heard that you would rather become a nun than marry the young master of the Wu family. That's perfect. It's really funny to have a few tufts of hair hanging on your bald head. You might as well shave your head and become a nun. That would be your wish, right?"
Jiang Yuxi and Miao's expressions changed at the same time.
Jiang Yuxi stood up almost immediately, turned around and glared at Jiang Rumin, "Are you kidding me?!"
The people in the Duke's Mansion knew about the marriage proposal with the Wu family, but she said in her own courtyard that she would rather become a nun, and she didn't shout it to anyone else.
"You have a spy around me?" Jiang Yuxi thought of this possibility almost immediately.
If there really was someone like Jiang Rumin among her maids, then her hair...
Her pupils immediately widened, "It's you who hurt me! It's you!"
"Even if it's true, you have no evidence." Jiang Rumin said calmly, "Do you remember how you hurt me in the past? Now you are just reaping the fruits of your own labor. In fact, I should have punished you a long time ago, but I was so busy getting promoted that I accidentally forgot about you."
"You vicious woman!" Miao was so angry that she was shaking. All her rationality collapsed at this moment, and she stepped forward to hit Jiang Rumin.
Jiang Rumin was prepared and pushed out the silver needle on the ring on her right finger to greet Miao's waving hand.
Miao's palm was cut by the needle and she covered her hand in pain.
"Mother!" Jiang Yuxi was furious. She picked up an abacus on the table and rushed towards Jiang Rumin.
Jiang Rumin had already opened the door and ran out.
Jiang Yuxi chased after her, furious and manic to the extreme, without stopping for a moment.
Jiang Rumin ran to the closed guest room in front of him and pushed open the door.
"Princess, save me!"
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