Chapter 25: Madness
After drinking tea, Prince Qi waved his hand and said, "When I came back the day before yesterday, I brought back a lot of small things from the border. They are not valuable, but they are new and fresh. You can go and see if there is anything you like. Just take it."
Lu Wanning agreed and thanked him.
After serving tea, Princess Qi let the young couple go about their business and did not force Lu Wanning to learn any of the palace's rules.
Even after leaving the front yard, Lu Wanning still felt a little unreal.
He pinched himself, not wanting to use too much force, and didn't feel much pain. He turned around and pinched Qi Muchao again, "Does it hurt?"
Qi Muchao had a blank expression on his face. "Did a dog eat your brain?"
Lu Wanning ignored him and continued to be excited.
"Can I go out?"
"Your legs are on your body, why are you asking me whether you're going out or not?"
Breathing the air of Prince Qi's mansion, filled with the taste of freedom, Lu Wanning followed Qi Muchao back to his room. She thought he wanted to catch up on some sleep, but he directly handed her the list of yesterday's gifts and the key to the warehouse. "Yesterday's gifts."
Seeing Lu Wanning staring at the list, Qi Muzhao said slowly, "Someone named Shen Mo sent some calligraphy and paintings, saying they were gifts for you and me."
These calligraphy and paintings were obviously worthless in Qi Muchao's opinion, so he didn't care.
After the birthday banquet that day, the relatives of the Chen family went to buy a lot of Shen Mo's calligraphy and paintings. When they went back to take a look, they found that the painting skills were indeed superb. Who knows, in the future he might be able to be as good as Mr. Lu Hongshan.
Word spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and suddenly many more people came to buy Shen Mo's calligraphy and paintings.
After hearing the reason, Shen Mo silently remembered this favor.
It was after Shen Mo's death in his previous life that his calligraphy and paintings began to recover. In this life, Shen Mo was alive and well. Even with Qi Muchao's praise that day, the value of those calligraphy and paintings was not very expensive, and naturally could not be compared with the original works of famous artists.
But compared with the calligraphy and paintings, what is more valuable is obviously Shen Mo's grateful heart.
Lu Wanning was sorting out the gift list, while Qi Muchao was sitting beside her drinking tea.
"I heard that Madam Chen is ill, and it seems to be quite serious."
Not long after Lu Wanning's sedan chair left yesterday, Madam Chen could no longer hold on. The servants helped her go back to rest, but soon she fainted while shouting "Madam".
I just asked a doctor to see her, and he said that it was because she had overworked in recent days. But I never expected that Mrs. Chen would suddenly go crazy at night.
The Chen family went to Yunque Pavilion to seek medical treatment, but Mr. Liu was not there for a few days, so they just asked a doctor to go. As a result, the doctor could not explain what disease Mrs. Chen had at all, and kept saying that Mrs. Chen had gone crazy.
How could a healthy person go insane overnight? This was obviously impossible. Not to mention Chen Wenjian, even Mr. Chen didn't believe it, so he sent someone to Huichuntang to ask for a doctor.
I heard that the disciple of Dr. Luo Shen is now practicing medicine in Huichun Hall.
But this disciple of Doctor Luo Shen only sees patients twice a month, so if she wants to see a patient, she has to go back and wait.
Mr. Chen naturally couldn't wait, so he asked the other doctors of Huichuntang to come and check on Mrs. Chen first to find out what was going on.
The answer he got was no different from the previous one. The doctor of Huichuntang claimed that his medical skills were not very good, so he asked him to ask the apprentice of the genius doctor to take a look, perhaps there would be an answer.
Lu Wanning didn't even raise her head. "Maybe it's not a disease but retribution."
Qi Muchao leaned on the table, supporting his head and looking at her with a half-smile, "Don't you need to go to Huichun Hall?"
After a pause, Lu Wanning put down the gift list, raised her head, and smiled at him, "My husband is really smart. I must go."
She stood up, adjusted the hem of her skirt, and said to Qi Muchao, "Do you want to come together?"
Qi Muchao is a scheming man. It is impossible for him to hide his identity. Moreover, if he cannot come up with an identity that can convince him, how can he prove that he can treat his body?
Why would anyone doubt that his weakness came from years of toxins rather than premature birth?
The two of them packed up and went to Huichun Hall through the side door of the palace.
The shopkeeper came over immediately upon seeing Lu Wanning, "Doctor Lu."
He glanced at Qi Muchao who was following behind Lu Wanning, and was frightened by the cold and hard mask on his face, so he quickly looked away.
Lu Wanning walked forward into the clinic. The innkeeper was telling her about Madam Chen's condition. "It's strange to say, Madam Chen was fine when the Chen family's adopted daughter got married last night. But in just one night, Madam Chen went crazy for some unknown reason."
The pair of eyes under the veil were cold, and Lu Wanning sneered in her heart.
"I only treat human illnesses, not madness." Lu Wanning stood up and went straight to the pharmacy to get medicine for Qi Muchao.
Lu Wanning didn't know whether Qi Muchao had drunk the medicine obediently some time ago, but after today, she would watch Qi Muchao drink the medicine.
The shopkeeper scratched his head helplessly, "The Chen family paid quite a bit for the consultation. You know our boss is a money-grubber. He agreed to this yesterday. What do you think of this matter..."
Lu Wanning raised her eyes and looked at him. "When I first came to Huichuntang, he personally promised me that whether he would see me or not would depend entirely on my mood."
The shopkeeper naturally couldn't say that that was their boss's most common method of deceiving people, so he could only persuade him kindly.
After being persuaded until her mouth was dry, Lu Wanning finally gave in. "If there is a next time, I will never come to Huichun Hall again."
"Yes, yes, I'll tell the boss when I get back that we can never do this again." The shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead, thinking that these people were all ancestors and no one could be offended.
Lu Wanning took Qi Muchao directly to Chen's house.
I had planned to take him to the theater openly on the day I returned home, but now I can do it.
When she arrived at the Chen residence, the doorman heard that she had come to Huichun Hall to see Mrs. Chen, and he hurriedly welcomed her in.
When Mr. Chen hurried over, Lu Wanning was already standing outside Mrs. Chen's courtyard gate.
Qi Muchao pretended to be a medicine boy and carried the medicine box for her.
To be honest, these two people don't look like they are here to save people, but rather like they are here to kill people.
This made Mr. Chen a little suspicious, but then he thought it was normal for the apprentice of the miracle doctor to be a little eccentric, so he felt relieved.
Master Chen stepped forward quickly, "Doctor, follow me."
Following Mr. Chen into Mrs. Chen's room, Qiu He was holding a handkerchief and wiping the sweat from Mrs. Chen's forehead.
It seemed as if he had not slept the whole night before, his eyes were dark circles and his face was tired.
Seeing Mr. Chen leading the doctor in, he quickly made way.
When the two passed each other, Qiu He glanced at her and stood aside waiting quietly.
I'm used to seeing Mrs. Chen's arrogant look on weekdays, so it's a bit hard to adapt to seeing her looking so pale and haggard.
After taking the pulse, Lu Wanning looked up and saw that the Third Madam had arrived at some point, stretching her head with an expression of wanting to watch the fun.
Seeing her stand up, Master Chen immediately came forward and said, "Divine Doctor, what happened to my wife?"
Lu Wanning's tone changed. "Heart disease needs to be treated with heart medicine. Even if we invite the imperial physician from the palace to come, there's nothing we can do to cure Madam's condition."
"Heartache?" Master Chen frowned and said in distress, "I've never heard that Madam has any worries."
Lu Wanning glanced at the layout of the room as if casually, then waved to Mr. Chen, who quickly came over.
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