Chapter 14 The Prince is a Good Man
The old princess opened her cloudy eyes and sneered, "Judging from your voice, you are probably very young. Young people, if you are too proud, you will become conceited."
"If I can describe your condition accurately, would you let me try?"
The old princess raised her eyebrows, "Okay, as you say."
"Have you been suffering from insomnia and night sweats recently? The sweat is spreading from your chest, so you put so much ice in this room in early summer."
The old princess didn't reply, but just looked at Song Zijin quietly.
"My periods have decreased, my appetite has decreased, I'm irritable, and I'm going to the toilet more often. Are these symptoms correct?"
The old princess seemed very surprised. "I didn't expect you to have such ability at such a young age. So what is this disease?"
Song Zijin said calmly, "It's exhausted."
The old princess and the old woman looked at each other and sighed.
She's only forty years old, and she's already exhausted...
"It seems that what I said is right. Now, would you agree to let me take your pulse?"
"Come forward." The old princess came down the stairs.
Madam Liu stood behind, covering her mouth with a round fan and smiling.
"What's your name?" asked the old princess.
"Just call me Doctor Luo."
Luo is her mother's surname.
Song Zijin wrote down a prescription, handed it to the old woman, and kindly advised, "Don't overthink things. Continuing to worry will only make your health worse. Life is all about breathing. If the breath is gone, everything is gone."
The old princess did not answer, but signaled with her eyes to the maid to send them out.
Madam Liu took out five hundred taels of silver, took out a silver note of one hundred taels, and gave the remaining four to Song Zijin.
This is the rule of her clinic.
Song Zijin studied her expression and said, "You don't seem to be angry about what she said."
"He's a valuable asset, so just say a few words. It won't hurt you." Madam Liu was very open-minded.
"Besides, she's just a pathetic person who looks strong but is actually weak. Why bother with her?"
Song Zijin was puzzled, "What do you mean?"
"You are still too naive. She just belittled me, but she didn't really mean to belittle me."
"?" Song Zijin was even more confused.
Madam Liu took her arm and said as they walked, "She really wants to be treated, but all the female doctors in the capital belong to the Imperial Hospital. Didn't you hear what that old woman said? The old princess looks down on the people in the Imperial Hospital. I'm the only female doctor in the family. She has to look for me, whether she wants or not. But if she takes the initiative to find me and outsiders know, it will make the palace look bad. Do you understand?"
Song Zijin sighed, "You guys must have much longer intestines than me."
Madam Liu smiled. "My methods are much more clever than the old princess's. She's the typical type who's obsessed with appearances and suffers all the consequences. If you can become a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with such a person, you must learn how to coax her."
Song Zijin didn't take this to heart. It had nothing to do with him and there was no point in thinking about it.
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Just as it was getting dark, a violent storm hit the capital city and lasted for half an hour.
Then the dark clouds dispersed and the moon showed its bright face again.
The path was covered with leaves blown off by the rain, and the air was mixed with the scent of soil. Song Zijin took a deep breath. She liked this kind of summer.
Xiao Jin doesn't like rainy days, so he didn't come to the palace today. Qingzhi no longer dared to act rudely in front of Song Zijin, and Song Zijin was happy to have some peace and quiet.
Even the croaking of frogs and chirping of insects became melodious.
Only after hearing the footsteps of someone coming did Xiao Linyuan open his eyes.
Today, his six senses have mostly recovered. They are useful but not completely, almost like those of a sixty-year-old man.
But this was enough to surprise him.
"Why are you so late today?" Xiao Linyuan asked.
"The streets are muddy after the rain and difficult to walk on."
Xiao Linyuan frowned, "Why don't you take a carriage?"
Song Zijin wanted to roll her eyes. How was this any different from "Why not eat meat?" But she didn't dare to provoke the God of War again.
I could only explain obediently: "I am just a maid. I cannot ride in a carriage when leaving the house."
Xiao Linyuan pursed his lips and said, "Whose maid would come and go with her master every day?"
He was sure that this woman was not born a maid, at least she was not used to being a maid yet. Besides, which maid knew medical skills?
Thinking about Xiao Jin's character, he thought it was possible to buy a woman from a poor family to keep as a concubine, so he didn't think much about it.
Song Zijin was terrified and quickly admitted her mistake: "I know I was wrong!"
Xiao Linyuan glanced over with half-closed eyes and said in a cold voice, "I am not forcing you to call yourself a slave."
Song Zijin keenly noticed that he was a little angry, but didn't know why he was angry, so he could only nod and say "Oh".
When she stood up, she found a table beside the bed with four plates of snacks on it.
It was so delicious that she could smell it even from five steps away.
Thinking about the peach blossom pastry I made, I suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
Xiao Linyuan glanced at the cakes on the table and said uncomfortably, "This is what the servant prepared for me. I can't finish it all, and I need to save some for the peach blossom cakes you made. It would be a waste to leave it alone. Please take it and eat it."
Today he lay in bed thinking all day and came to a conclusion: She was suddenly in a low mood yesterday, maybe because she didn't get praised for the pastries she made?
After getting up in the morning, his sense of taste was restored. In order to confirm his guess, he tasted a bite of the peach blossom pastry that he had not finished yesterday. To be honest, it was not tasty.
How to evaluate the appropriateness?
Probably, it's suitable for making dry food for marching and fighting...
He has always been a down-to-earth person, and he really couldn't praise something so unpalatable, so he specifically ordered Chunsheng to get these four pastries that the kitchen chef is best at.
It is important for people to know themselves. After eating such delicious pastries, she would not chase him to ask whether the "dry food" tasted good, right?
Song Zijin's eyes lit up. She hadn't eaten almond tofu for a long time!
Cow's milk is a rare commodity. Except for the rich and powerful, ordinary people can only eat it twice a year.
She is not a gentleman, so she has no intention of refusing to accept charity.
Xiao Linyuan ate peach blossom pastry with the food box, and she sat on the stool and ate almond tofu.
It was probably because the almond tofu was so delicious that she narrowed her eyes in satisfaction, just like a well-behaved cat.
Xiao Linyuan took a big bite of the peach blossom pastry and chewed it hard for a few times. Today's peach blossom pastry was even drier.
If she were in the army, he would have suspected that this woman was a spy and had deliberately used such dry pastries to choke him to death.
"What do you think of these four plates of pastries?"
Song Zijin's cheeks were puffed up like a little squirrel. He tried hard to swallow the food in his mouth before answering, "It's delicious!"
Xiao Linyuan nodded. "How does it compare to this peach blossom pastry?"
"..." Song Zijin glanced at the exquisite almond tofu on the plate, then looked at the peach blossom pastries of various shapes in Xiao Linyuan's hand, and suddenly lost his appetite.
Alas, Fu Yue was right, she really had no talent for making pastries.
So what did this King Jinyue mean? Was he using these four plates of pastries to mock her for making unpalatable peach blossom pastries?
No, no, how could she judge others by her own standards?
The prince must have felt sorry for her because she could only eat the unpalatable peach blossom pastry, so he gave her the opportunity to taste the palace's top-quality pastries.
Thinking of this, she became happy again.
The prince is indeed a kind-hearted person!
My nose felt sore and my heart was warm, as if I was drinking with a close friend.
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