Chapter 18 Revenge, Departure, Homecoming
Even if Gu Nanxiao knew that his mother was not actually sick, he wouldn't try to seize the imperial physician. For no other reason than that, if he did, Yunxi would be in even more precarious a position.
He instructed Mo Yu to send someone to fetch a doctor from outside the mansion.
Within half an hour, three groups of doctors had arrived. After taking Yunxi's pulse, they all shook their heads, indicating that they were helpless.
But before leaving, the doctors all warned that if the patient's high fever continued, his life would be in danger that night. Even if he survived, he would wake up mentally impaired.
Gu Nanxiao never expected things to become so serious. He immediately instructed Mo Yu, "You personally hitch up the carriage, go out of the city to the Su family's villa, and invite Su Mingyan back before the city gates close tonight."
Mo Yu bowed in agreement and left the palace without delay.
Gu Nanxiao looked at Yunxi, whose face was flushed red but who remained unconscious, and frowned with unease. He waved away all the servants in the room, leaving only Zisu to attend to her.
Zisu had wet a cool cloth in a basin of cold water, preparing to change Yunxi into it. Gu Nanxiao reached out and took it. He walked to the bedside, held Yunxi in his arms, and personally used the cool cloth to wipe her forehead to cool her down.
It was at this moment that Gu Nanxiao realized how hot Yunxi was; at least in his memory, he had never had such a high fever before.
Gu Nanxiao patiently wiped Yunxi for a long time, but her body temperature did not decrease but increased, and she began to mumble incoherently.
Yunxi kept muttering, "Revenge...Leave...Go home..."
Gu Nanxiao listened to Yunxi's words and felt a mix of emotions. He knew that Yunxi had always cared a lot about being his concubine.
But he didn't understand. Since Yunxi had already given herself to him, where could she go if she left?
Before curfew, Mo Yu finally managed to get the person to come. Su Mingyan had just entered the room and was about to tease Gu Nanxiao when he was suddenly pulled to the bedside and urged to take his pulse immediately.
Seeing Gu Nanxiao's urgency, Su Mingyan abandoned his joking thoughts and carefully examined Yunxi's hands repeatedly, then inquired about the events before and after the onset of her illness.
Then he sat down at the table to the side, picked up a pen and wrote three prescriptions, handed them to Gu Nanxiao and said, "Have the servants take them to get the medicine."
Three doses of medicine, administered in the indicated order, one bowl every hour. If, after three doses, there is still no improvement, then it's time to prepare for her passing.
Seeing a sharp pain flash in his friend's eyes after he finished speaking, Su Mingyan asked with great curiosity, "You... you've fallen for this maid?"
Seeing his friend's teasing look, Gu Nanxiao said with a straight face, "What do you mean by being tempted or not? She's just a maid. I just feel that, after all, it's a human life, and I can't just stand by and watch."
Seeing his stubbornness, Su Mingyan turned to look at the stunning beauty on the bed and tentatively asked, "Since you don't care, how about giving her to me once she recovers?"
The maidservants in the boudoir were merely playthings, and it was quite common for these young masters of noble families to exchange maidservants. Some literati even regarded it as a refined pastime.
Upon hearing this, Gu Nanxiao's face instantly darkened, and he said in an unfriendly tone, "I'll destroy those two medicinal herbs you asked me to find, how about that?"
Su Mingyan's expression changed abruptly, as if someone had grabbed him by the throat. He immediately dropped his nonchalant smile and waved his hand to stop her, saying, "No, no, please don't ruin it. I'll never again have designs on you, my precious one."
Gu Nanxiao frowned and retorted again, "What do you mean by 'heart'? I've already said it, she's just a maid. The reason I won't give her away is because she's mine. Even if she's destroyed, I won't allow anyone else to covet her!"
Seeing his stubbornness, Su Mingyan couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, "Fine, fine, whatever you say."
But then again, this little girl is quite special. She's so young and looks so delicate, but she's actually very strong inside.
To be so enraged by mere humiliation is something I've never seen before in my life.
After hearing the cause of the illness, Gu Nanxiao asked incredulously, "You mean to say that her current serious illness is not because she caught a chill from being exposed to ice water, but because she is consumed by anger?"
Su Mingyan nodded seriously and said, "That's right. Judging from her pulse, she has always had a problem with heart stagnation. Today, this surge of anger in her heart came out quickly and fiercely, bringing up all her long-standing ailments, which is why she came on so aggressively."
What I find utterly perplexing is why he was so indignant over what you said this afternoon. Either this woman has an extremely strong personality, or there's something we don't know about.
Gu Nanxiao thought about it and felt that the latter was more likely. If Yunxi didn't want to be his concubine, why would he make it public knowledge?
As the two were talking, the first dose of medicine was brought out, but Zisu could not be fed it no matter what she tried.
Seeing this, Gu Nanxiao came to the bedside, picked Yunxi up and sat her up. He took the medicine bowl from Zisu's hand, put the medicine in his own mouth first, and then fed it to Yunxi spoonful by spoonful.
Seeing this, Zisu turned her face away in embarrassment, while Su Mingyan looked at the two of them with amusement.
After drinking the first dose of medicine, Yunxi's body temperature dropped significantly within 15 minutes, and there was a faint dampness on the tip of her nose.
Seeing this, Su Mingyan asserted, "That's fine then. After she finishes the remaining two doses of medicine, I'll give her a different prescription tomorrow morning."
He paused and then said, "After this girl wakes up, you should also give her a few words of advice. She's so young, how can she be so impulsive?"
When Gu Nanxiao heard that Yunxi was alright, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and immediately instructed Moyu to take Su Mingyan to the villa to rest.
After everyone left, Gu Nanxiao felt quite tired. He went to the table, poured himself a bowl of cooled tea, tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp, finally relieving his throat, which had been parched all day.
He stayed in Yunxi's bedroom, fed her the remaining two doses of medicine, and only went back to his room to rest after seeing that her body temperature had completely dropped.
The next morning, Gu Nanxiao fed Yunxi the newly prescribed medicine from Su Mingyuan in the same way before going to court.
When he returned from court, Yunxi had already woken up and was leaning against the bed, making notes on her project proposal.
Seeing that she was so ill that she couldn't even sit up, and that she was in a hurry to revise her proposal the moment she woke up, Gu Nanxiao remembered that she kept repeating the words about leaving when she was talking in her sleep last night, and a sense of irritation rose in his heart for no reason.
He reached out and snatched Yunxi's booklet, asking in a slightly cool voice, "So eager to take revenge? Are you planning to leave as soon as you've done it?"
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