Chapter 757: Woman's Name
When Ji Rongqing woke up again, it was more than half an hour later. The severe pain in his head seemed to have been suppressed, but his body seemed particularly weak because of the previous ordeal.
He turned his head to the side and saw the woman sitting on the couch not far away in the light and shadow.
"Princess…"
A hoarse voice sounded, and the people at the table stood up subconsciously.
"You're awake."
Wu Ya poured a glass of water and quickly walked to the bedside. After helping Ji Rongqing to his feet, she placed the water to his lips and whispered, "Do you know how scared you almost scared me just now? Your headaches haven't been this severe before. Why is it different this time? I've consulted doctors all over the city, but no matter what medicine they use, they can't suppress it."
Ji Rongqing lowered his head and drank some water, only then did he feel better in his throat. He said palely, "I frightened the princess."
Wu Ya helped him sit up. "What on earth is wrong with your head? The doctors all said they couldn't find the cause, and your pulse doesn't show any symptoms either. It seems to have come for no reason. And when you fainted from the pain just now, you were still mumbling someone else's name..."
Ji Rongqing's heart tightened: "What did I call?"
Wu Ya looked at him and said, "It sounds like a woman's name."
Ji Rongqing subconsciously clenched his fists, and the first person that came to his mind was Tang Ning's figure. He just thought that he had said something wrong before he fell unconscious, but when he looked up and met the tentative look in Wu Ya's light brown eyes, Ji Rongqing suppressed his suspicion, pretended to move his body and gave a faint smile.
"Princess, you're joking. I've been frail since childhood and rarely leave the house. I have no relatives or sisters at home, and besides my mother, I've never been close to any other woman. How could I possibly call another woman by her name?"
Wu Ya saw that his face was pale, his eyes were slightly curved and his smile was gentle when he spoke, and she felt relieved.
"Maybe I heard it wrong. You were so confused in pain before, and your words were unclear."
Ji Rongqing loosened the knuckles that were tucked into his sleeves. "In the past, when nothing happened at home, I had servants to serve me. When the pain was so severe before, I thought I had returned to the past. Maybe I called them."
He said it casually, and when he raised his eyes, his eyes were gentle:
"My head disease is already a stubborn one. I have been seeking medical advice for a long time but to no avail. Princess, please help me find someone to treat me tonight."
Wuya loved his gentle whisper the most. She withdrew her sharp thorns from the others and couldn't help but soften her tone when she spoke:
"It wasn't the people I found who cured you tonight. Those people were useless and had no way to treat your headache. It was the medicine Song Jinxiu sent that made you better."
Ji Rongqing paused: "Song Jinxiu?"
Wu Ya hummed, "The person who delivered the medicine is still being held in the Princess's residence by me. Do you want to meet him?"
Ji Rongqing nodded, and Wu Ya quickly asked someone to bring Doctor Wu over.
When Doctor Wu was escorted over, he saw Wu Ya and Ji Rongqing sitting at the head of the bed. He looked at Ji Rongqing's face for a moment, then knelt down and saluted: "I greet the princess and the prince consort."
"Get up."
Ji Rongqing spoke weakly and asked people to stand up: "I heard from the princess that it was Master Song who asked you to bring medicine to treat me."
Doctor Wu: "My master came across this good medicine by chance. He heard that the prince consort had a headache and the princess had searched all over the city for doctors to treat you but to no avail. So he asked me to bring this medicine to you to try. My master said that the prince consort was Beiling Humerus and there were some misunderstandings between you in the past. If this medicine can make you better, he will feel less guilty."
Wu Ya scoffed at what Doctor Wu said, and felt that Song Jinxiu was hypocritical. When he had been holding on to Ji Rongqing and opposing them at every turn, he didn't seem to feel guilty at all.
Ji Rongqing's expression remained unchanged: "Lord Song has a kind heart."
Doctor Wu seemed oblivious to the mockery on Wu Ya's face. He simply said respectfully, "I'm here on your Excellency's orders to deliver the medicine. Now that the Prince Consort's headache has subsided, it's time for me to return and report to you, Your Excellency."
Ji Rongqing: "Okay, when you get back, thank Master Song for me."
"Rong Qing..."
Wu Ya opened her mouth to say something, but Ji Rongqing pulled her hand back.
Ji Rongqing said gently, "Princess, please ask someone to send him back."
Wu Ya frowned for a moment, but did not refute. She just raised her voice and asked someone to come in and take Doctor Wu out.
After the others left, Wu Ya couldn't help but turn her head and said, "Rong Qing, why did you let him go? Since the medicine he sent was useful to you, you should have asked him for the prescription."
Ji Rongqing said: "The recipe cannot be in his hands."
"Then Song Jinxiu..."
"He may not have the recipe, and even if he does, he won't give it to us."
Wu Ya's eyes widened upon hearing this.
Ji Rongqing said, "You previously searched for doctors of all sizes near the Imperial City to cure my headache, and even offered a reward of 10,000 gold to any famous doctor in Beiling. If this miraculous medicine existed, you would have found it long ago. There's no way it would have fallen into Song Jinxiu's hands."
"Besides, Song Jinxiu took refuge in the Imperial Master's Mansion after entering Beiling. Xiahou Ling used him extensively but never trusted him. All the servants in his mansion came from the Imperial Master's Mansion. If he really used those people to deliver the medicine, Xiahou Ling would have known about it long ago, and the prescription would have fallen into his hands."
Wu Ya was not a dull person, and she understood what Ji Rongqing meant as soon as she heard it.
Ji Rongqing's headache was known to almost everyone in the imperial city, and many people knew that he was extremely painful every time an attack occurred. The Imperial Master's Mansion had always been at odds with them, and Ji Rongqing had repeatedly ruined the Imperial Master's Mansion's plans. If Xiahou Ling really knew that there was something that could suppress Ji Rongqing's headache, he would definitely hold on to this thing and use it as a threat.
Then the person who delivers the medicine tonight should be someone from the Imperial Master's Mansion, not Song Jinxiu's person.
Wu Ya said in a deep voice, "Song Jinxiu actually betrayed the Imperial Master's Mansion?"
Ji Rongqing said: "It's not necessarily a betrayal, but it's just that I have some ulterior motives."
His forehead felt a little sore from where he had bumped into it earlier. He rubbed it gently and said, "Xiahou Ling is a very controlling person. Song Jinxiu is under his constant surveillance. It's almost impossible for him to find the medicine on his own. He can't even leave the imperial city. This medicine must have been found for him by someone else."
Wu Ya reacted: "Someone come!"
The Song family has always been under surveillance, so it is not difficult to find out who Song Jinxiu has met.
After the people below reported Zhang Bin's name, Ji Rongqing frowned and said, "Are you saying that Zhang Bin is from Wei?"
The people below knelt down and said, "My dear Prince Consort, Zhang Bin's biological mother is from the Great Wei. He has half Wei blood. The Zhang family's ancestors have always been merchants."
"After Zhang Bin's mother passed away, he followed his biological father to Beiling to inherit the Zhang family business. Over the years, he has traveled extensively and expanded the Zhang family's business. He has established good relationships with many powerful people in the Imperial City and has also maintained contacts with the Thirteen Scattered Tribes and the Three Major Clans."
"About two months ago, Zhang Bin sent a batch of goods to the Wei Dynasty. Yesterday, he returned with more than ten unfamiliar people from the Wei Dynasty. Song Jinxiu went to the Zhang family after dark. The doctor who came to deliver medicine to the princess is also from the Zhang family."
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