Chapter 91 Drag Me Down
Five years ago, Yu Zixuan suffered brain damage from a high fever when he was a child, which caused his mental age to remain at around five or six years old.
As a result, he was ridiculed and bullied by his peers, but no one in the Yu family noticed his misbehavior.
It was Yu Zhiyi who noticed his slow movements and had her servants check on him, only to discover that he had many wounds on his body.
Those were marks left from being abused.
He was bullied and then warned that if he dared to tell anyone, they would beat up his whole family next time.
Such a warning would frighten even a child of normal intelligence, let alone Yu Zixuan, whose intelligence is only at the level of a five or six-year-old.
He was heartbroken, he was sad, he was terrified, he was in pain.
But he didn't dare to say it.
Unable to bear seeing the only person who was still kind to her being bullied, Yu Zhiyi disregarded the backlash and forcibly defied fate to change his destiny.
That's right, defying fate.
Yu Zixuan's mental disability was not due to illness, but rather because he was born without two souls.
His fate was unusual; he was destined to never be able to gather both of his souls in his lifetime, and he remained a fool until his death.
Yu Zhiyi used a secret technique to forcibly find his two incomplete souls, turning him back into a normal person.
Forcibly fusing a fragmented soul is extremely taxing on both the caster and the recipient. While she was a cultivator, it was relatively easy for her, but Yu Zixuan was unconscious for seven whole days as a result.
Before casting the spell, she consulted the Yu family, but they did not believe she possessed such an ability and warned her not to act recklessly.
Yu Zixuan was bullied until she was covered in bruises while she was struggling with her decision.
In a moment of impulse, Yu Zhiyi disregarded the objections of her family and performed a spell.
When the Yu family saw that Yu Zixuan had fallen into a coma, no matter how she explained, they did not believe that she was trying to help Yu Zixuan, nor did they believe that she could help him. They even thought that the bruises on his body were caused by her abuse, and almost beat her and expelled her from the mansion for this.
It was her third brother who pleaded for her and gave her a chance to explain.
All she could explain was the origin of Yu Zixuan's injuries, and whether Yu Zixuan had fully recovered could only be proven when he woke up.
Later, the Yu family found out that the injuries were indeed caused by some vicious teenagers and had nothing to do with Yu Zhiyi, but... they didn't say a word of apology.
It was under these circumstances that Yu Jiaojiao sought out the divine physician Chunyu.
The divine physician Chunyu denied the existence of metaphysics in this world and stated that he could revive Yu Zixuan and help him regain his sanity.
A few days later, Yu Zixuan really woke up and regained his normal intelligence.
But... he no longer remembers his beloved sister, and all he sees is his beloved sister Jiaojiao.
Yu Zhiyi's eyes looked somewhat frightening at this moment.
Madam Yao was startled and called out cautiously, "Yi'er, Yi'er?"
Yu Zhiyi snapped out of her reverie, looked at Yao Shi's eyes filled with worry and fear, and pinched the bridge of her nose: "I'm sorry, I was thinking about some old things. Mother, please continue."
She thought that after two lifetimes, she had let go of these things, only to find now that even if the wounds have healed, the scars can never be erased.
No matter how you choose to bury and forget, the smooth, ugly texture will clearly remind you when your fingertips accidentally brush against it how a knife was once plunged into this place, and how the handle was maliciously twisted to create a wound that was excruciatingly painful.
Ultimately, it's because his Dao heart is unstable.
Yu Zhiyi smiled bitterly.
No wonder her master refused to take her away.
Given her current state of mind, even if she truly achieved great cultivation to the point of being able to ascend, she would still be reduced to ashes by the tribulation lightning due to the existence of her inner demons.
"I won't say anymore, I won't say anymore." Although Madam Yao didn't know what had happened, seeing Yu Zhiyi's appearance, she knew that this Divine Physician Chunyu must have caused her harm.
She didn't want to rub salt into Yu Zhiyi's wounds.
Yu Zhiyi silently recited the Heart-Clearing Mantra twice and calmed down. She said calmly, "Go ahead and speak, Mother. It's alright."
Seeing her insistence, Madam Yao could only continue, "I was wondering whether I should tell His Majesty and the Yu family that the divine physician is dead?"
If the Yu family has no connection with them, then she naturally won't be bothered by it.
However, the Yu family happens to be Yu Zhiyi's maternal family, and if this matter is not handled properly, Yu Zhiyi may be implicated.
But she also had some doubts, after all... what if?
What if the doctor the Yu family knows is the real miracle doctor, and the one she met before was a fake, and she made a mistake? Wouldn't that be a complete misunderstanding?
Before Yu Zhiyi could speak, Madam Yao put down her chopsticks: "Forget it, let's wait for your father to come back and discuss it with him."
Before Prime Minister Du could return, Yu Zhiyi was invited to the palace.
Although it was said to be an invitation, the person who came to summon her was not very friendly.
Madam Yao looked anxious. While sending someone to find Prime Minister Du, she tried to stall for time: "I wonder what Your Majesty is so anxious to summon Yi'er for?"
As she spoke, she gave Aunt Wen a wink, and Aunt Wen understood. She walked up to the guard and tried to slip him a silver ingot.
But he was refused: "His Majesty is waiting, Physician Yu, please."
Madam Yao wanted to stop her, but Yu Zhiyi shook her head slightly and said, "It's alright, Mother. I probably won't be back tonight, so you don't need to wait for me for dinner."
"Yi'er!"
Yao held Yu Zhiyi's hand tightly.
The Yu family had just tried to use the Empress Dowager to their advantage when the Emperor summoned Yu Zhiyi to the palace. How could she not be at ease?
But she was, after all, just the wife of a subject. She had no power over who the emperor wanted to summon. After Yu Zhiyi left, she could only go to the small Buddhist hall and desperately pray to Buddha for protection.
Yu Zhiyi couldn't calculate anything related to herself, but she could easily guess why the emperor had summoned her to the palace.
It's simply that the legendary doctor failed to cure the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Then the Yu family remembered what happened back then and dragged her into it as well.
She showed no fear and entered the palace with composure.
Yu Zhiyi's guess was correct; it was indeed the Yu family who dragged her into this mess.
After Yu Jiaojiao was rescued, she took her eldest and fifth sons to find the divine doctor.
Back then, she found the miracle doctor in the Shaanxi region, and thus asked the emperor for a month's treatment.
As soon as the group left the capital, they found what appeared to be the legendary physician Benyi in the outskirts of the city. Despite the physician’s resistance, the group insisted on bringing him into the palace.
After seeing the Empress Dowager, the divine physician prescribed her a medicine, saying that if she took it for seven consecutive days, she would regain her senses.
As a result, after taking one dose of the medicine, the Empress Dowager suddenly fainted.
The entire Imperial Medical Bureau was mobilized, but even the most skilled physician, the Chief Physician, could not determine the cause of the Empress Dowager's fainting.
The only guess is that there was something wrong with the medicine prescribed by the miracle doctor.
After reviewing the prescription, this guess was confirmed.
The prescription given by the miracle doctor wasn't a proper treatment room at all, but rather a room for conditioning the body.
Under normal circumstances, it wouldn't be a problem to give it to the Empress Dowager.
Unfortunately, the Empress Dowager had previously prescribed medicine for the Imperial Physicians.
Many of the herbs in the two prescriptions are incompatible.
The hospital director questioned the doctor's identity with certainty: "Even a barefoot doctor knows to ask the patient if they have taken any medicine before and what kind of medicine they have taken before prescribing medicine. How could a dignified doctor not even do such a basic thing?"
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